Ragdoll physics are a hot item in gaming. It means the arms and legs move somehow more realistic which gives characters a less static look. In games this is most times used for death animations, for some reason that gave us a lot of torture games... Every ragdoll engine is different, but all games offer the nice throwing around and while most games have a way to finish it, some are just gadgets to play around with. All thanks to Flash and it's ActionScript which makes the building of dynamic games a lot easier.